Globalisation Democracy and Governance in South Asia : Issues and Alternatives

Contents: Preface. Introduction : conceptual premises of governance and emerging perspectives. 1. Professor Iqbal Narain and Indian political science - imprints of a liberal-humanistic approach/Mohan Lal Sharma. 2. Modernization, ethnic upsurge and conflict in South Asia/Gurnam Singh. 3. Political elite, democracy and 'crisis' of governance in South Asia: a constitutional riddle or a transitional phenomenon/Mohan Lal Sharma. 4. Democratic structures and elitist politics : challenges facing democratic governance in India/Asha Kaushik. 5. Markets, democracy and social justice : a study of governance in India/Kamalakant Panda. 6. Citizen- administration interface in democratic governance : need to go beyond managerialism/A.K. Sharma. 7. Women and political participation in India/ Anurag Joshi. 8. Panchayati Raj in contemporary India : reconceptualising democracy, civil society and gender autonomy/Shail Mayaram. 9. Constitutional breakdown and systemic crisis in Pakistan/Baljit Singh. 10. Islamized political culture and sectarian issues in Pakistan : comparative trends during Bhutto and Zia Regime/Surendra Nath Kaushik. 11. The crisis of governance in Pakistan : the role performance of political elite : an overview/P.L. Bhola. 12. Democratic governance in the era of structural adjustment: a view from Bangladesh/Fahimul Quadir. 13. Secularization process in South Asia: span and implications for governance/S.L. Verma. 14.Ethnic mobilisation, patterns of demand politics and response of state in South Asia/B.C. Upreti. 15. Monarchy in Nepal: socio-political bases 420 pp. …